Synopsis of Motivational Speech Topics

Inspiring your Team to
Greatness

All
of us whether employed with a company or running our own business ventures (except
of course a sole proprietorship) in some form or the other are working with
teams at our work place. For every person who we call the "Boss", he
or she will have subordinates working for them.

It
is one thing to have expertise in something and do that extremely successfully
ourselves and quite another to delegate and have done by people working for us.
This is because every individual's motivation is not the same and to get others
of varying motivation and energy levels to execute a task as one envisions it
is no easy task. The success of any organization hinges on how well we harness
individual team members into a tightly welded team producing at its peak. It
may mean the difference between a successful enterprise and one that is not.

To
inspire a team to greatness requires not just managerial skills but more critically
leadership skills. A team needs an individual that they can look up to and be
motivated to follow. Sadly, the experience is more often that we have managers
heading teams but not exhibiting leadership skills.

Leadership is a skill
set completely different from that of a manager although the expectation is
that a manager is also a leader.

Ignite your Calling in
Life

Your calling is as unique as your DNA!

We always talk about and revere omnipresent,
"cult status" brands like Apple, Coca Cola, and McDonald’s, which
touch our lives every waking moment. These brands are instantly recognizable,
carry phenomenal value and more importantly are uniquely distinctive.

Have we ever stopped to think that the God Almighty
also created an equally if not more powerful "brand" unique from
everybody else Including Apple, Coca Cola etc. - YOU!

Yes, YOU, Ladies & Gentlemen. I would go as far
as to say that Apple, Coca Cola had to actually go and register their brands to
call it their own!!! In contrast, YOU were sent down to this Earth with the God
Almighty's Pre-Approved Brand!!! (anyone who has been sold any kind of Credit
Card and that should include all of us with a pre-approval will know what I am
talking about) and remember this pre-approval is unique too - being the
Almighty's, it HAS NO VALIDITY PERIOD!! (unlike a Credit Card).

So, that is why your calling is as unique as your
DNA!

Would you then not want to learn more about this
unique "brand" that is you? Would you not want to ignite that mysterious
and latent element that is your "calling"?

For, at the end of the day, since God sent us down
on this earth with our own personal brand he meant for us to do something with
it.

Did we do anything with it?

Ignite your calling is all about finding out what we
did with it. Did we even realize we were supposed to do something with it or
for that matter what that calling actually is.

Stay with me on this fascinating journey into the
Discovery of Our Brand and our calling!

Ignite
It, NOW!

Have a Zen Mind!

The first decade of the new millennium has sealed it as the
decade of “The Learning Revolution” thanks primarily to the all-conquering
juggernaut known as the Internet. The explosion of every kind of information
that is now available on the web has meant that learning is just a click
away. Or is it really?

Research into the workings of the brain and indeed the mind has
conclusively proved that brain and mind power potential are similar among all
human beings. This is the equivalent of “creating a level playing field” in the
business world. All of a sudden, every human being has been vested (in
almost a supernatural way) with an infinite capacity to learn, and imbibe.
The only condition or qualification, for want of a better expression, is
the presence of a positive mind-set towards such learning.

But this has brought in its wake two major and diametrically
opposite problems:

The Confusion of Choices and

The Expertise Trap!

While on the one hand, the literal barrage of information - some
dangerously dubious - from every conceivable point of view has meant that we
have to carefully sift through before we reach the truth, on the other hand it
has led to what we can only call the "know-it-all syndrome" or the
Expertise Trap.

Enter the powerful principle of the Zen Mind.

A Zen Mind is the
quintessential Beginner's mind, a mind OPEN to possibilities and a mind, which
refuses to profess expertise in anything...a mind ready to absorb and imbibe!

Join us in this
exploration into what a “Zen mind“ can do to your ability to assimilate and apply
without any limitations.

Be a Jack-of-all-Trades
& the Da Vinci of today!

Long
ago, the much clichéd expression: A Jack of All Trades is Master of None! ruled
the roost. The thought process seemed to suggest that you should not be
"knowledgeable" in more than one area and you should strive to be an
expert in one thing!

Well,
even in this age of the explosion of the Internet and the overload of information,
that may appear to be the only choice.

However,
whether it is in the context of creativity or effectiveness in a business or on
the job, consider for a moment that we are expected to wear multiple hats in
the course of these endeavors. There are no self-contained silos any more and
cross-pollination and alliances are the order of the day.

In
this scenario, being a generalist and being multi functional is a huge
advantage. In fact, this is a pre-requisite to being creative; as I shall
go on to prove.

No
great person past or present epitomized this ”Jack of all Trades and Master of
All“ tag than the incomparable genius of the Renaissance Era - Leonardo Da
Vinci.

Endowed
with seemingly supernatural talents Da Vinci, considered one of the greatest
Painters of all time, was a master exponent of Art, Architecture, Astronomy,
Astrology, Aeronautics, Physiology, Psychology and numerous other fields of
study.

Da Vinci through his
own life achievements emphasized that the brain and the mind are utilized to
their fullest extent when we pursue, absorb and then apply knowledge gleaned
from multifarious disciplines beyond what is just work related. His Seven principles
of creativity are the Holy Grail of any yardstick of creative ability and
pursuits.

So, join me in this
rather ”out of the box“ exploration into broadening our horizons of knowledge in
our quest to be the modern day Da Vinci! I can promise to ignite insight that
will leave you stunned!

Discovering the Creative
You

Every one of us is a potential Einstein waiting to be
discovered!

Wow! That is profound…. and yes, shocking!

Every human being has the inherent capacity to learn and be
infinitely creative. All it requires
is an attitude and belief system, beginning with belief in the person who
stares back at you every morning from the mirror!

Quickly ask yourself: were you ever aware that in terms of
capacity of the mind, you are on par with Einstein!

If you were, my heartiest congratulations!

For those who were or are not aware, there is no cause for
despair! Indeed, you are among the majority who has no inkling as to what they
are capable of. And that should make this journey absolutely enthralling. Skeptical,
maybe, but enthralling nonetheless!

It is a myth that creativity is the domain of only a few gifted
individuals. This is primarily
because of how we define creativity and also how much we underestimate our own
ability to be creative.

It is my intention
that with specific insight into understanding the unique working of our
miraculous mind and the incomparable brain, we begin to discover the creativity
that is inherently present in all of us.

Goal Setting insight to
Happiness

Goal
setting as a personal development activity is now so prevalent that there is an
entire industry worth billions of dollars that purveys this through various products
and services.

We
however many times utilize goal setting in rather restricted ways and for
merely materialistic acquisition. Don't get me wrong, by any stretch of imagination,
it is not bad to yearn for and set goals for materialistic acquisition.

What
I am emphasizing though is that this pursuit of materialistic acquisition falls
short of something that is far more valuable, fulfilling and complete. I
would say this is the difference between setting "success" as a goal
as opposed to, say, "happiness".

The
attainment of happiness as a goal brings with it success, however, not necessarily
vice versa.

So, Ladies &
Gentlemen, come with me on this journey. I assure you setting happiness as a
goal and the achievement of that will bring in it's wake everlasting elements
like peace of mind, contentment etc that eventually money cannot buy!